To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuina Dany News' all we ever heard from English Sources was benevolent encour: ment, of the mildly surprised kind: "Tut, tut, look at what the little fellow has been able to do all Mee dert he too clever for words." ich, at best, is irrit The French say that the English think "Negroes begin at Calais". Heavy soled tourists, who can't speak the language, do not make many friendships.
Italy, as you doubtlessly know, has the same position as one of model boats built' inside a glass countries "become antagonistic. This is what happened in Ethiopia, Mussolini merely wanted to enforce the 1886 treaty signed by Menelik, recognized by the Powers concerned which granted Italy a virtual pro: tectorate over Ethiopia. No corpses, air-bombardments, ruthless destruotion of a pastoral civilization: mere: ly a few negotiations around a green table, a few signatures, and Italian advisers would have appeared here and there in Ethiopia, Italian busi ness houses, banks, factories. Somebody advised Haile Selassie that it was all a bluff, to resist, not to give up. War became inevitable. [tal had to go through with it, in spite of everything. Of course, sanction and their corollary, the non-recognltion of the Italian Empire, are the measures every dutiful member of the League of Nations had to take to save its self-respect. I never heard of sanction against Paraguay and Bolivia, nobody mentioned sanetions against Japan to-day, or Germany when she violated the League covenant.
Moly wants to live, cafinot live without raw materials. Let Italy buy raw materials from the British Empire, America, is the usual answer io that. "Let em eat cake". The British Empire cannot sell raw materials to Italy because Italy has no pounds with which to pay. Italy das no pounds because the British. Empire and the United States do not buy enough Italian products. The British Empire buys British, and the "United States protect the standard of living of the American working-
Sm,—feel that the following extracts from "The Guardian" of January 7, received this morning, Will be of interest to your readers in connection with your editorial in yesterday's edition of the "North-China Daily News,"
On page 3 of "The Guardian," under the heading "The Doctrinal Report," there appears the following com-[mani The statements which have appeared in several newspapers about ihe Doctrinal Report, Which is to be published on January 14, are open to: some "misunderstanding. They are nob taken from the report but from a prospectus issued by the S.P.CK., the "publishers. The prospectus, however, which we quote elsewhe is not content merely th describe ili Contents of the report. but it gi 3o far as to pass critical comments Qn a document which is not yet before "the—Church public Towards the end of the" prospectus the SP.CK. very properly that its views are this has not been generally un. stood, "Io many people the -S: P.C.K. occupies a position of such authority that its pronouncements are 'INgarded as almost official, For this reason We regret this use of tie prospectus by the Press, and the publication vi a statement which lends Wsel 10 misconception.
The quotation from the prospectu to which he refers appears on Page 11 and is as follows.
The report of the Commission o Christian Doctrine appointed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in 1922 will be published next Friday by the S.P.CK. "Such a measure of agreement is revealed," says a prospectus issued by the SP.CK. that no fears of a split i the Church of England need henceforward be entertained. To take one example that an agreed statement on Confes-Sion and Absolution should be possible shows that on one question, once hotly disputed. no Serious differences need now exist. As the years passed by, the task of the, commission altered inevitably its scope. The members les occupied with the domestic problems of Anglicanism and more with the presentation ai the universal Christian tradition in ihe language of to-day. To many readers it will seem that the reconciliation of 'High' and 'Low'. which has been largely achieved. is of less importance than the treatment orf what is popularly known as" Modernism. When all allowance has been made for indifference and the multiplication of interests in modern life, probably the greatest obstacle to the Recall to Reigion is the feeling' that modern men gan no longer believe the old faith. The report takes the line that the claith must be explained, not assumed: it is definitely a contribution to the evangelistic rather than the pastoral Work of the Church. That scholars of the eminence jose responsible for the report are. agreed in their
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